This week Fairtrade International is celebrating its 15th birthday! Some of our members (namely Fairtrade Germany, Max Havelaar Switzerland and Fairtrade Luxembourg) are even turning 20 this year – a great opportunity to...

On International Women’s Day, we want to celebrate the women around the world that make Fairtrade great. As producers, consumers, advocates and staff, women are the backbone of Fairtrade movement.
Countless women have inspired...

With the collapse of financial institutions and the uncertain economic climate, more and more people are looking for alternative ways of doing business. The cooperative model offers just that. What’s more, cooperatives are an...

Caramel, chocolate, spicy, nutty, winey, earthy and floral. Can you distinguish among the many flavour notes and aroma’s typical of different coffees from around the world?
Knowing coffee isn’t only for the connoisseur, but...

Fairtrade International and Fairtrade farmers joined forces with ICCO, the Dutch Inter Church Development Organisation, to host a side event on day twoof the COP17 climate talks in Durban to examine how climate finance could and...

Climate change has wiped out nearly half of the 10 million coffee trees that Mzuzu Coffee Planters Cooperative Union has planted since 2003, according to the union’s operations director Bernard Kaunda. Mzuzu Coffee is a Fairtrade...